The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come . u the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone byreason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am certainly informed thatthis our city will be burned with fire from heaven ; in which fearful overthrow, bothmyself, with thee, my wife, and you, my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin,except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found whereby we may bedelivered. At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed thatwhat he had said to them was true, but because t
The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come . u the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone byreason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am certainly informed thatthis our city will be burned with fire from heaven ; in which fearful overthrow, bothmyself, with thee, my wife, and you, my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin,except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found whereby we may bedelivered. At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed thatwhat he had said to them was true, but because they thought that some frenzy dis-temper Lad got into his head; therefo^, it drawing towards night, and they hopingthat sleep might settle his brains, with all haste they got him to bed. But the nightwas as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it insighs and tears. So when the morning was come, they would know how he did. He * Bedford jail in which Banyan was twelve years a prisoner,t See references to the Bible at the end. (29). Oheistian tells his Wife and Children of his Distress. At length he brake his mind to his wife and children. (3P CHRISTIANS DISTRESS OF MIND. 31 told them, Worse and worse; he also set to talking to them again ; but they began tobe hardened. They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surlycarriage to him : sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and some-times they would quite neglect him. Wherefore he began to retire himself to hischamber, to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery; he would alsowalk solitary in the fields, sometimes reading, and sometimes praying; and thus forsome days he spent his time. Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was (as he waswont) reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and as he read, he burstout as he had done before, crying, Whatshall I do to be saved ? ^ I saw also that he looked this
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